Abstract
Stream ciphers are often used in applications where high speed and low delay are a requirement. The Solitaire keystream generator was developed by B. Schneier as a paper-and-pencil cipher. Solitaire gets its security from the inherent randomness in a shuffled deck of cards. In this paper we present probabilistic relations for the Solitaire keystream generator and describe their properties.
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Pudovkina, M. (2002). Probabilistic Relations for the Solitaire Keystream Generator. In: De Decker, B., Piessens, F., Smits, J., Van Herreweghen, E. (eds) Advances in Network and Distributed Systems Security. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46958-8_5
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